Art journal page - HOME sweet HOME

Hi and welcome back :0) Today it is a nontraditional 6.5"x 8.5"  (ca. 16,5 x 21,5 cm) and art journal page. 

I used and transformed my older turquoise left-over background. I added plaid background stamp from Tim Holtz, a lovely girl stamp from Penny Black, some greenery die from Hero Arts and a beatiful house front stamp from Graphic 45. I also used AALL & Create washi tape and I stamped plaid background stamp over the black cardstock with Versamark ink, so the subtle pattern matches my page. I colored my images with Dylusions Vibrant turquoise spray, Karin Brush Marker PRO and OHUHU alcohol brush markers (skin) and I was happy how easy it was :0) 

I love this page and maybe you can also feel those quiet vibes as I do :0) 

Thank you for your visit, have a nice late summer day and see you next time :0)

28.8.2021 HOME sweet HOME

Birthday box card two :0)

Second of two birthday box cards I made this year. I used what I learned during a creation of the first card in May, but still a lot of new things and techniques to learn....made with love and fun :0) Last photo was taken in the sunlight and shows a Wink of Stella shimmer shine on the water lilies and moon. Unfortunately other pictures did not take this nice detail at all...

4.6.2018 "Waterlily pond scene" birthday box card

Creative weekend 9 - "Spooky night"

Spooky night art journal page is a test of a new Dorée paper pad with slightly creamy 20x20 cm (ca 8"x8") papers. 

It is a drawing and sketching pad, but I wanted to try how this paper will work with some of the creative media I normally use in my art journals - Distress inks with water droplets, paint pens, coloured pencils, Pitt brush pens with India ink and even clear gesso and pastel ground medium.

The outcome is not bad, although it is necessary to be careful and don't rub the surface when it is wet, because it damages the paper. But otherwise I'm quite satisfied, the paper is only 170 gsm (115 lb), tu is sturdy enough to work with, although it would be probably not good to use a lot of spray inks or so. 

So as I said, I used Distress inks with water droplets technique for the background and white Distress ink with a spiderweb stencil over it. Then I used stone wall stencil for the foreground and Stampscapes trees, Inkadinkado owl, Penny Black pumpkins and Chocolate baroque cauldron stamps. Bat is a part of the another, Halloween, stencil from Tim Holtz. 

I played a lot with the pumpkins. I wanted to colour them directly over the background colours, so I used Luminance coloured pencils, but the final colours were not so bright I wanted, so I covered all the pumpkins with a beige pastel ground medium, which creates more tooth to hold the pencils better. It helped, but not so much I hoped, so I added another layer over them with a clear gesso and over this final, now non porous, surface I used Pitt brush pens which are filled with permanent India inks. Finally I rubbed some colours of with a cotton swab as my highlights. Owl is quite dark, so she was coloured directly with Pitt pens over the surface. As a final layer for her eyes I used glitter gel pen and the same pen I also used for some details on the page. Moon and a steam from the cauldron were coloured with white paint pen, bats with a black Pitt pen through the stencil. 

Thank you for stopping by again, have a nice Sunday evening and see you later :0)

18.11.2017 Spooky night

Scrap art journal 4 - Dragonflies

"Dragonflies" - 4th page in my Scrap art journal series (square 28 x 28 cm /cca 11" x 11").

The journey out of my comfort zone continues :0)...
This time I wanted to transform the scrap papers in a new way. The original paper was brown with colored dots. I embossed it with an embossing folder and carefully used a darker brown Distress ink over the page. The ink hit the embossed parts mostly, so the new leaves design has nicely appeared. I used the same technique with the green scrap paper, which I cut in squares then and framed with brown Distress ink.
Newly I also used a cotton rag paper, which is a rough hand made paper from India and it's very firm and beautifully textured. I used it for the moon (together with a silver foil leafing technique) and the maple leaves. Although I used a lot of liquids on those elements, the texture of the paper is still there and I love it a lot.

The dragonflies were stamped on a transparency with Staz-On ink and colored from the reverse side with a green alcohol marker. For the silver shine on the wings I used a silver Krylon pen - again from the reverse side, so the black stamping is still visible. I tried to use just a thin layer of the silver pen, so the wing are a bit transparent at the end.
Leaves were stamped on the colored cotton rag paper with silver pigment ink and embossed with Ranger detail silver embossing powder. And the white-silver string was over-painted with silver Distress paint.
As I final touch I used the silver and gold mirrored stars all over the background - after all, it is a night scene still, right? :0)

Thank you again for stopping by, have a great days and "see" you next time :0)

15.7.2017 Scrap art journal 4 - Dragonflies

Distress oxides first look - backgrounds and stamped tags

This weekend I opened my new Distress oxide inks. I tried them a bit, just to know how they look like alone, in the combination with traditional Distress inks or stamped and misted.  So I made just a few small tags.

They are nice to play with, I need to say, although if you want to make a nice combo of Distress inks and Distress oxides, it is better to be a careful with the oxides. Too much oxides can hide the vibrant colors of Distress inks and make all background too dull. And also some oxides seem to be stronger than others e.g. brown ones, so put pink oxide over the larger spot of brown one is a bit difficult, after water mist pink oxide kind of soaked into the brown one and disappeared. But maybe I need just try more :0)

And for the water mists I prefer older Ranger Mister bottle to a newer Distress Sprayer one, because with the mister you have a better control over the water amount and it is really just the water mist and no big droplets of water, so oxides start to shine but they don't bleed too much (for me, this is important when I stamp with oxides).

But mostly (and with a bit of practice) they make a very nice and unusual backgrounds and I really love the combo with Distress inks. The contrast of the matte and bright colors is incredible and sooooo nice :0)

So here they are - the first tags I made, for more detailed look open every image in a new tab:

1) Distress inks and Distress oxides combo: 

a) first tag is Broken china Distress oxide over Mustard seed and Spiced marmalade Distress inks 

b) second tag Fossilized amber, Spiced marmalade and Vintage photo Distress oxides over Salty ocean and Mermaid lagoon Distress inks

2) combo and mix:

a) first tag is a combo of Broken china and Vintage photo Distress oxides over Mustard seed and Spiced marmalade Distress inks

b) second one is a pure Distress oxides mix - Fossilized amber, Mustard seed and Broken china distress oxides

3) Distress oxides mix: 

a) first tag Broken china, Wilted violet and Faded jeans Distress oxides 

b) second tag Worn lipstick, Wilted violet and Faded jeans Distress oxides

4) stamping with Distress oxides on white and kraft cardstock. Both sprayed with water more times - sprayed, dry with heat tool, sprayed, dry, sprayed, dry... .0). Bleeding of the blue colors on the kraft cardstock is not much visible, after the paper is dry.

a) Vintage photo and Walnut stain Distress oxides on the white tag 

b) Broken china and Faded jeans Distress oxides on the kraft cardstock 

5) background of all this tags made with Wild honey, Vintage photo and Ground espresso Distress inks and images are stamped over with 

a) Faded jeans Distress oxide (tulips) and Pumice stone Distress oxide (crackled pattern). I also covered this tag with liquid gloss acrylic medium, so all colors are more vibrant and have more depth - the tag resemble a glass tile. 

b) Broken china Distress oxide

c) Worn lipstick Distress oxide

Every tag is misted with water more times till the dye part of oxides started to bleed into the background colors. Especially on the third tag the Worn lipstick made a nice darker pink halo effect around the stamped image. On other two tags I used a glue stick and gold foil on the borders.

Creative weekend 5 - "New style"

"New style" - a bird page with a new technique in Seawhite hardbound 7.5"x7.5" (ca. 20x20 cm) journal, finished on Monday (because of  all the interesting videos from Creativation) :0)

This page started as a acrylic mixed media background - layering of chalk and normal acrylic paints, some acrylic stamping....too messy and disappointing for me at the end, so I changed a bit my planes and finished the page in more graphic look, which I like.

But the main goal was to create the leaves with a great technique I saw on the Paper Artsy blog. Leaves are stamped on the acetate sheet with black Staz-on ink, dried (I carefully used a heat tool) and then colored from the stamped side with more layers of acrylic paint. Firstly I used 3 layers of beautiful transparent Red iron oxide from Golden and than more opaque and lighter Americana Bright orange paint and sealed all with glossy varnish medium. If you then cut the leaves out of the acrylic sheet and flip them over, the colours from the back side really shine through the clear plastic and they are perfectly protected from damage.

This is a wonderful technique and I absolutely recommend to try it :0) It is just necessary to thing carefully about the order of the colours you will place on the back side of the acetate, because your first layer of colour will be most visible one at the end. It is a reversed style, normally if you work on your page, it is your last layer which is the most visible .0)

So this page turned to be more mixed media than expected. I used Golden acrylic paint, Paper Artsy Fresco acrylic paints, Americana acrylic paints, different stamps for background texture, colored pencils from Derwent and Caran d'Ache, Twisted stencils - big and small - from Tim Holtz, skeleton leaf stamp from Florileges design, thicker acetate sheet from some stamp packaging, clothespin stamp from Penny Black's older Embellishments stamp set and I changed a bit the Prima's bird stamp from Jamie Dougherty (I stamped it with Antique linen Distress ink, redrawed the picture according my needs with permanent black liner and "erased" the rest of the "unused" lines with clean water and brush, because distress ink is water-soluble). White details are made with water-based fine Sharpie pen. Alphabet is again my latest favorite Perfectly penned font from Concord and 9th.

23. 1. 2017 New style

Creative weekend 4 - "New Year's resolutions" and "Beauty of pear"

Two new pages in Seawhite hardbound 7.5"x7.5" (ca. 20x20 cm) journal. First ones in this year :0)

"New Year's resolutions" made with Dylusions and  Distress acrylic paints, LaBlanche stamp and Dylusions white and black pens and "Beauty of Pear" with Distress stains, paints and markers, Penny Black stamp, simple masking technique, Distress Vintage photo embossing powder, "Perfectly penned" alphabet stamp set from Concord & 9th and beautiful white mulberry paper.

14.1. 2017 New Year's resolutions

15.1. 2017 Beauty of PEAR

Creative weekend 1 - a few eclectic pages :0)

Just a few small pages I made this weekend in my new Seawhite hardbound 7.5"x7.5" (ca. 20x20 cm) journal :0)

29.7.2016

30.7.2016

31.7.2016

31.7.2016

1.8.2016
(very difficult to make a picture of this, I used Distress Mermaid lagoon and Salty ocean inks and also Wink of stella clear glitter pen and Tim Holtz Rock candy clear glitters with sticky embossing powder and nothing of this is visible on the photo...)

Art journal page - Autumn

Hi,

today I have an art journal page with autumn theme. I wanted to make an impression of changing colors of the autumn nature. Therefore, I have a two-tone background this time :0) I used leaves stamps from Penny Black and some old clear (no name) stamps, mushrooms from Chocolate Baroque and Sheena Douglass and rose hips and chestnuts from Chocolate Baroque. Trees are just hand drawn and for more interest used a wood texture stamp from Kaisercraft.  This time I colored all images with Distress ink pads - I used mini ink pads, put them on my craft sheet and used them as a palette. The alcohol markers I used just for shadows of the object on the background. For better control of the color intensity I used just an ordinary small round brush dipped in water droplets, not a water brush. At the and of the coloring I covered all the objects (except trees and mushroom legs) with Ranger Distress micro glaze, so they become waterproof and the colors intensified. Background is a combination of two Lindy's Stamp Gang sprays (Bayou Boogie Gold, Cajun Carnelian Red), Prima Marketing Color bloom sprays (Sorbet, Gilded), gesso and water droplets.

Square 28 x 28 cm (cca 11" x 11")

I hope you like it and I would be happy if you would leave me a comment :0)